It was late at night and the house was about to go underwater from the massive flooding in Queensand. I had to get my fish out!!
I started catching them, chucking them into buckets and quickly driving up to work (a petstore) to keep them there. I decided to leave my datnoid and large clown loaches til last as they were going to come stay with me at a friends place that i was house-sitting at the time.
So i had the datnoid bucket and another bucket left, ran the other bucket up to work, threw em in the tanks there, then raced back home. What i saw when i got there completey devastated me.
My datnoid who i had raised since he was a tiny baby was now floating upside down.
I freaked out! I started tearing up the room looking for a battery powered air pump, hooked it up to the bucket then started moving the fish back and forth through the water to get some oxygen in his gills. There was no improvement.
My mother came into the room and said to 'just let him go, put him back into his tank and let him die naturally' but i was in denial. He cant be dead, i cant lose him.
So we drove off to my friends house, me not daring to look in the bucket the whole way there. I put it on the floor next to the tank, took a deep breath and looked down. He was ALIVE! The airpump and the movement from the car ride had revived him!
I have to say that was one of the happiest moments of my life, the relief of it was just amazing.
So anyways, the lesson here is ALWAYS use an air pump when moving fish, even if its for a short period of time, you dont want to risk losing them.
Me, my family and my 4 dogs sat in the lounge room all night absolutely exhausted but we just couldnt sleep knowing that the Brisbane river was creeping closer to our house.
I finally dozed off at about 6.30am only to get a phonecall at 7 telling me i had to quickly get to work, one of the tanks had emptied and had flooded the store.
During the night I had taken my 2ft RTC up there and dumped her in our 3ft plant tank. It had a sump on it but i thought id hook up a canister aswell, just for some extra filtration. It didnt have any suction caps on the outlet pipe but i thought it would be ok. Nope.
I walked into work at 7.10 still in my pyjamas, and saw that my catfish was in 2inches of water. The outlet of the canister had come loose and pumped it all out. Her gills were still under and she was alive, so i filled it back up, and mopped up the floor, all while crying like a little girl. lol
Shes ok now, but Ive defintely learned my lesson. Make sure the pipes are secure! And drilling a hole just under the water line on the inlet is a good idea aswell.
I started catching them, chucking them into buckets and quickly driving up to work (a petstore) to keep them there. I decided to leave my datnoid and large clown loaches til last as they were going to come stay with me at a friends place that i was house-sitting at the time.
So i had the datnoid bucket and another bucket left, ran the other bucket up to work, threw em in the tanks there, then raced back home. What i saw when i got there completey devastated me.
My datnoid who i had raised since he was a tiny baby was now floating upside down.
I freaked out! I started tearing up the room looking for a battery powered air pump, hooked it up to the bucket then started moving the fish back and forth through the water to get some oxygen in his gills. There was no improvement.
My mother came into the room and said to 'just let him go, put him back into his tank and let him die naturally' but i was in denial. He cant be dead, i cant lose him.
So we drove off to my friends house, me not daring to look in the bucket the whole way there. I put it on the floor next to the tank, took a deep breath and looked down. He was ALIVE! The airpump and the movement from the car ride had revived him!
I have to say that was one of the happiest moments of my life, the relief of it was just amazing.
So anyways, the lesson here is ALWAYS use an air pump when moving fish, even if its for a short period of time, you dont want to risk losing them.
Me, my family and my 4 dogs sat in the lounge room all night absolutely exhausted but we just couldnt sleep knowing that the Brisbane river was creeping closer to our house.
I finally dozed off at about 6.30am only to get a phonecall at 7 telling me i had to quickly get to work, one of the tanks had emptied and had flooded the store.
During the night I had taken my 2ft RTC up there and dumped her in our 3ft plant tank. It had a sump on it but i thought id hook up a canister aswell, just for some extra filtration. It didnt have any suction caps on the outlet pipe but i thought it would be ok. Nope.
I walked into work at 7.10 still in my pyjamas, and saw that my catfish was in 2inches of water. The outlet of the canister had come loose and pumped it all out. Her gills were still under and she was alive, so i filled it back up, and mopped up the floor, all while crying like a little girl. lol
Shes ok now, but Ive defintely learned my lesson. Make sure the pipes are secure! And drilling a hole just under the water line on the inlet is a good idea aswell.
